Seasons greetings to you all and hope you have had a very Merry Christmas with this part of the festive season now over we look forward to the New Year and the celebrations that take place in the capital on the 31st December and 1st January.
Many of you will choose to work over New Year and especially New Year's Eve and what we would like you to observe at the RMT London taxi branch is how you are treated has a London taxi-cab driver and if you are allowed access at a reasonable time to and within the secure zone so you may pick up passengers who are seeking and wish to use the services of a London taxi-cab.
Over recent years London's taxi-cabs have been excluded from entering the zone until the very early hours of the morning last year it was well past 4 am. People come to London, people expect to be able to find a taxi-cab plying for hire near or within the zone. We know a request was made last year to Transport for London and the Public Cariage Office for a temporary rank on the Mall, this request was turned down by a senior member of the management team of the Public Carriage Office. So if you chose to work this New Year let us known at the RMT London taxi branch whether you were able to go about your business at a reasonable time and pick up Londoners and tourists who require the services of a London taxi-cab and not that of a pedicab/rickshaw, tout or a licensed mini-cab driver touting illegally.
A very Happy New Year to you and your family and let us hope that 2010 is the year that the UK economy finally recovers.
